"Волшебник (The Wiz)"

Волшебник. (The Wiz). США, мюзикл, номинированный на "Оскар", 1978 год. Дороти молодая афроамериканская воспитательница детского сада, убегает с торжественного семейного ужина, чтобы найти своего потерявшегося пса в бушующей метели в НьюЙорке. Вдруг ее уносит циклоном и она оказывается в городской версии сказочной Страны Оз. В ролях: Дайана Росс (Дороти), Майкл Джексон (Пугало), Нипси Рассел (Железный Дровосек), Тед Росс (Трусливый Лев), Ричард Прайор (Волшебник) и другие. Режиссёр: Сидни Люмет. Продолжительность: 134 минут Сам еще не смотрел, но уверен, что фильм хороший!!! Начало в 21:00... Кто не может сегодня повтор будет завтра в 16:00. Так, ну я уверен что многие знают английский язык и вообщем вот: The Wiz is a 1975 Broadway musical, based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, exclusively featuring African American actors. The play features music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, and its original cast featured Stephanie Mills, Hinton Battle, Tiger Haynes, Ted Ross, Dee Dee Bridgewater, André DeShields, Tasha Thomas and Mabel King. The show opened on January 5, 1975 at the Majestic Theatre and ended on January 28, 1979, running for 1,672 performances. A motion picture adaptation of The Wiz was produced in 1978 (see 1978 in film) by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, and Mabel King. History. The musical was famous for its portrayal of the Wizard of Oz characters as African Americans. It was also one of the most popular musicals of the time. Broadway musical. The Broadway musical opened on January 5, 1975 with Stephanie Mills as Dorothy, Hinton Battle as Scarecrow, Tiger Haynes as Tin Man, Ted Ross as Lion, Dee Dee Bridgewater as Glinda the Good Witch, André DeShields as the Wiz and Mabel King as Evillene the Wicked Witch of the Westwith Johna-Ann Washington as (The Good Witch of the North). The production was directed by Geoffrey Holder. The Wiz opened at the Majestic Theatre and later moved to The Broadway Theatre. It ran for four years and over 1600 performances, and won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The most popular song from the production was "Ease on Down the Road", sung by the characters as they dance down the Yellow Brick Road. Along with other musicals like Purlie (1971) and Raisin (1974), The Wiz was a breakthrough for Broadway, a large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-black cast. It laid the foundation for later African-American hits like Bubbling Brown Sugar, Dreamgirls and Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. It never performed on London's West End, but a handful of amateur and semi-professional productions have appeared in Britain with black and non-black casts. During the tour, Stephanie Mills was replaced by Rene Harris in 1976. Deborah Malone replaced Harris in 1978. Motion picture. For more details on this topic, see The Wiz (film). Motown Productions acquired the film rights to The Wiz in 1977, and signed Stephanie Mills in anticipation of having her star in the film adaptation. Motown singer and actress Diana Ross asked Motown CEO Berry Gordy to cast her as Dorothy instead, but Gordy declined, feeling the thirty-three year old Ross was far too old for the part. However, Ross contacted Rob Cohen of Universal Pictures, who offered to have Universal finance the film if Ross were to play Dorothy, at which point Gordy acquiesced. The resulting film version of The Wiz also starred former Motown star Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, and Lena Horne as Glinda the Good Witch. Ted Ross and Mabel King reprised their respective roles of the Cowardly Lion and Evilene from the Broadway production. Sidney Lumet served as director, working with screenwriter Joel Schumacher (who used none of Brown's stage script) and music supervisor Quincy Jones. Although the stage musical's setting begins in Kansas b